7. Die Metamorphose: Von Jesus zu Muhamad
"In den Adern
des Propheten fliesst Tinte - auch die der
europäischen Orientalisten."
Karl-Heinz Ohlig, Religionswissenschaftler
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7a. Byzantium, Persia and in between
the Christian "Arabis"
7a.1. The early "Arabia" with
religious fights in today's Kurdistan
[War without end and manipulations between
Byzantium and Persia]
The history of the Near East in the first half of the
[[fantasy]] post-Christian millennium was
characterized by the permanent conflict between Persia
and the Byzantine Empire. There were direct encounters
on the battlefield, but mostly there were
representative wars, because both powers maintained a
network of Arab allies, who changed sides often
enough.
["Arabia" to the Middle Ages: Part of the Fertile
Crescent]
With Arabia of today we mean the Arabian Peninsula. In
antiquity and in the Middle Ages, Arabia included
Syria, Palestine and Mesopotamia, sometimes more,
sometimes less. Arabian Peninsula was only a part of
it. However, the northwestern part was linked to the
culture of the Mediterranean by the Nabataeans, these
were Hellenized Arabs.
["Arabia" to the Middle Ages: Variety of religions
and promises of salvation - struggles among fantasy
Christians]
This ancient Arabia was a political and religious
pressure cooker. It was not by chance that three of
the five world [[fantasy]] religions originated here.
[Fantasy]] Jews, Greek, Babylonian, Asiatic pagans,
Melkites, [[Fantasy]] Jacobins, Syriac [[Fantasy]]
Christians, Coptic [[Fantasy]] Christians, Catholic
[[Fantasy]] Christians, Nestorians [[Fantasy
Christians]], Zoroastrians, Buddhists and others were
in constant competition. Every day, so to speak, there
appeared on every corner a [[fake]] herald of
salvation, a messenger of [[a Fantasy]] God, a
[[Fantasy]] Messiah, a new [[Fantasy]] prophet.
Constantly under the pressure of the imminent end of
the world, one had to be prepared for it.
The individual factions had their own religious
[[fantasy]] texts, which were each discussed,
attacked, defended. These debates were particularly
intense about the "true doctrine" between the
individual [[Fantasy]] Christian factions [p.107].
The central point here was the question of the nature
of [[Fantasy]] Jesus. The discussion was carried out
both on the Greek-philosophical point of the needle
point as well as palpably [44].
[44] This counts for example for the
Council of Ephesus (431), which was registered in
history as "robber's synod". Reverend [[Fantasy]]
Fathers of the [[Fantasy]] Church launched fists and
sticks at each other, and bullyboy teams were hired
to enforce the true teachings.
For the Monophysites, [[Fantasy]] Jesus had only one
divine nature, for others, the monarchists,
[[Fantasy]] Jesus was indeed an envoy of [[a Fantasy]]
God, but still only human, and for yet others,
[[Fantasy]] Jesus was the Son of [[Fantasy]] God and
in addition to his human nature had also a
divine nature. These were the questions that occupied
the people of the Middle East for centuries in an
intensity that was almost incomprehensible to us
today. However, their salvation depended on the
ever-awaited return of the [[Fantasy]] Messiah, who
would judge them with the flaming sword. The attitude
to life was to live in the end times.
[The separation of Arab Fantasy Christianity from
the rest of Fantasy Christianity: Mistletoe is
Fantasy Trinity]
In numerous councils where these questions of
[[Fantasy]] faith were vigorously debated, namely in
Nicaea in 325 and in Chalcedon in 451, the "doctrine
of the [[Fantasy]] Trinity", the doctrine of the
[[Fantasy]] "Holy Trinity," became the official dogma.
This separated the Arab [[Fantasy]] Christians from
the mainstream.
7a.2. Deportation of Fantasy
Christians to Persia and the term of "Arabi" for the
population in Mesopotamia
[Hijacking and forced labor in Asia]
But a certain spatial separation had happened before
already. General war practice in the Orient was the
murder and / or deportation of the vanquished. Those
who survived the battles and the ensuing slaughter
were transported away and used for various work
projects in their own provinces.
The deportation of the [[Fantasy]] Israelites by
Nebuchadnezzar to Babylon is known.
The three great wars of Schapur I. (240 / 42-270 AD -
see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapur_I)
ended in huge deportation waves of the population of
today's Syria and Iraq. For example, the [[Fantasy]]
Bishop of Antioch on the Syrian Mediterranean coast
was deported with his community to Khuzistan
(Chuzestan, today Iran -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuzestan)
and deported for the construction of the newly founded
city of Gundeschabur (now Iran -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundischapur).
Another destroyed and deported [p.108] city was the
northern Mesopotamian central Hatra, located between
the Euphrates and Tigris rivers (today North Iraq
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatra)
[45].
[45] The leaving gaps, in turn, were often
filled by more or less forced deportations from
Greece and from the Balkans.
[[These deportations are the reason that also blond
people can be found in the Middle East]].
[The term "Arabi" = "dwellers of the west" - from
Persian perspective]
The inhabitants of this area, the "Jasira" ("island")
(= Upper Mesopotamia, today Kurdistan -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Dschazira_
(Mesopotamia)), were called "Arabi", "the
inhabitants of the West ", seen from the land beyond
[[eastern]] of the Tigris River [[so, seen from
Persia]]. Here, the term "Arabs" becomes manifest for
the first time, but it is not the same meaning as we
know it today.
[Deportaitons: Syro-Aramaic language and Fantasy
Bibles are spreading up to Persia]
The Arabi spoke Syro-Aramaic. One can suppose for sure
that on the way to the Persian Diaspora, they also
took their sacred [[Fantasy]] books with them, the
Peshitta, the Aramaic [[Fantasy]] Bible and the
Diatessaron, the Aramaic [[Fantasy]] Gospel.
Another coup was carried out under Khosrau I., who in
540 again deported the entire population of Antioch to
the East and had them built the city
"Veh-Antiokh-i-Khosrau" ("The Better Antioch of the
Khosrau"). The deportees continued their religious
life in Persia.
7a.3. Byzantium against Persia -
robbery of the Fantasy Cross of Jerusalem 613 and
repatriation of the Fantasy Cross 630
[613: Persia occupies Jerusalem - destruction of
the Holy Fantasy Sepulcher and robbery of a fantasy
cross - 619 Egypt]
In the 7th century, the conflicts between Persia and
Byzantium took on the character of a religious war.
613 there was a new push of Persia towards the west.
Khosrau II occupied Syria and conquered Jerusalem in
614. He demolished demonstratively the [[Fantasy]]
Church of the Holy Sepulcher and took the relic of the
[[Fantasy]] Holy Cross as a trophy with it. In 619 he
conquered Egypt.
[Reconquest of Byzantium from 622 - destruction of
the fire temple in Ganjak]
This action could not be accepted by Byzanz. Emperor
Heraclius attacked Persia with an army. Under the
personal guidance of the Emperor - an absolute rarity
in late antiquity - in 622 a battle took place in
Armenia, during which the Persian army was defeated
completely. The following year, Herakleios took the
city of Ganjak and had destroyed the Fire Temple there
as a revenge for the action in Jerusalem. Two more
battles followed to the complete and triumphant
victory of Byzantium.
[Byzantium gives up Syria and Mesopotamia to have
troops in the Balkans]
Khosrau still did not want peace, so he was murdered
by his own people, and his son Siroe made peace with
Byzantium then. In the ensuing "equalization", the
emperor [[of Byzantium]] got back his Arab territories
nominally - which he had never really mastered. But
within [p.109] the complete reorganization of the
Byzantine Empire (the "Thematic Conference"),
Heraclius had already decided to give up Syria and
Mesopotamia as imperial territory, but kept some
cities and all the harbors under his control. The
urgently needed consolidation of its central area
which had absolute priority, because in the West [[on
the Balkans]], the Empire was fighting for its
existence.
[Constantinople does not have to be capital -
repatriation of the Fantasy Cross to Jerusalem 630]
As early as 618, Heraclius, originally from North
Africa, had thought of abandoning Constantinople as
the capital and governing it from Sicily. A popular
uprising and the [[Fantasy]] clergy prevented him, but
the [[Fantasy]] Church had to finance his campaign,
which he victoriously won in 628 and then crowned in
630 with the solemn and personal return of the
[[Fantasy]] Crucifix relic to Jerusalem.
It had not been an ordinary campaign, but this was the
first [[Fantasy]] crusade of history, the struggle of
the [[Fantasy]] Christians against the
fire-worshipers.
